Example sentences of "we [adv] did [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we finally did make it back to the ground , palpitating and soaked with sweat , there was no sign of Ranteallo , and much of the crowd had already dispersed on its way back to the Rante . |
| 2 | Some tyre levers and allan keys were missing but by driving slowly back I ( or rather we , as I 'd offered some fellow tourists a lift back to town ; what with delays getting started , and then this to-do , I bet they wished they 'd never bothered , it would have been quicker to walk ! — and when we finally did set off again , I accidentally left one of them behind , running along the road behind us waving and shouting ! ) — we , as I say , found most of the missing items . |
| 3 | by the way if we ever did do that stay with aunty Mary , right , then she came back with us |
| 4 | ‘ We 've never closed a store , but if we ever did close that one , we would be happy to restore the land for industrial use . ’ |
| 5 | We nearly did go back , when despite picking what looked like the most innocuous section of the next cloud blocking the route , the VSI cranked round briefly to over 1,000 fpm ascent . |
| 6 | Oh , it all right , we did handle it , that issue anyway , separately , so that 's , we probably did receive your outline there . |
| 7 | I think we probably did have Singapore noodles last time . |
| 8 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 9 | ‘ Yesterday morning we had almost reached the point , I think , of believing that the test would be plain sailing — we really did think he would make it . |
| 10 | So we have to er set out our stall there to form , first of all identify those target P L C's which we really did want to get close to . |
| 11 | He 'd say that it proved that , instead of a machine or a sampler , we really did play it ! |
| 12 | We really did work well as a team . |
| 13 | At that point , once the letter is finalised , we then did have a meeting with two members , the Chairman of this Committee that 'll be Councillor Park , to just go through it , and that happened on Monday morning of this week . |
| 14 | Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas . |
| 15 | My goodness , we certainly did have some outstandingly good preachers around these parts , particularly before the war . |
| 16 | What would it mean if we actually did discover the ultimate theory of the universe ? |
| 17 | And we never did go back on the payroll after that . |
| 18 | But we never did walk across the river before or since . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ We never did finish that weeding , did we ? |
| 20 | We never did have a proper wash house at our place like some people , with a big boiler and a fire underneath for hot water . |
| 21 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 22 | We never did see that organ grinder again and I felt sorry about what had happened . |
| 23 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 24 | We never did find his house did we ? |
| 25 | Remember your dad putting in a big huge something or other which we never did find out what it was , and it 's an ugly little specimen |
| 26 | We never did establish that for the simple reason we were in a terrible quandary ourselves wondering which version was the right one . |
| 27 | We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report . |
| 28 | Anyway , we met up , and we never did get back for the last act . |
| 29 | We never did get erm any county colleges . |
| 30 | We never did afford our meal did we ? |